But I have a favorite line in his novel called The Hamlet, where Faulkner has one of his characters say, and I quote: "Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick what they ain't brave enough to cure."

但我最爱他在小说《村子》里的一句话,他笔下的一个角色说道,"感谢上帝,让人类学会了怎样,迅速的忘记那些我们没勇气面对的事"

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He's able to justify the ways of God to men here on the physical - on this intimately bodily earth.

弥尔顿得以从这具体的物质的人间的角度,证明了上帝待人之法。

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He replied, "Jacob." Said he, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and men, and have prevailed." Jacob asked, "Pray tell me your name." But he said, "You must not ask my name!"

答，“我名叫雅各，“那人说，“你的名不要再叫雅各,要叫以色列，因为你与神与人较力都得了胜，“雅各问,“请将你的名告诉我，“那人却说，“何必问我的名，“

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We find slavery repeatedly instituted by God or by men acting under his immediate care and direction, as in the instance of Moses and Joshua.

我们反复发现上帝一直在推行奴隶制,或是借人之手,操作施行,就像摩西和乔舒亚的故事一样

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Men of Athens," he says, "I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I breathe and am able to do so, " I will certainly not stop philosophizing."

他说：，“雅典人，我只会服从神而非你们,只要我还有口气在，我就绝不会停止哲思“

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For men, being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker," Namely God, "They are His property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during His, " not one another's pleasure."

既然人类都是无所不能和无限智慧的，创世主的创造物“，也就是上帝，“他们就是他的财产，是他的创造物，他要他们存在多久就存在多久，由不得他们自己作主“

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To justify the ways of God to men is essentially to put God on trial for the actions that he performs.

证明上帝待人之法相当于是,就上帝的所作所为对他进行审判。

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To the extent that Lycidas' body has been recovered, that it's been redeemed, Milton is able -- perhaps successfully, Milton is able to justify the ways of God to men.

利西达斯的身体最终愈合了，被救赎了，这样弥尔顿就得以--或许是成功的，证明了上帝待人之法。

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How then can we justify the ways of God to men? How can we justify the fact that the abstinent Orpheus, the virtuous Orpheus, ? was so brutally assaulted and without any aid from the higher powers?

如何证明上帝待人之法？，如何解释俄耳甫斯这样一个,节制欲望，贞洁自守的人竟会遭到如此残忍的谋害，却得不到任何更高力量的援助这样一个事实？

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And so, to use the words with which Milton would begin Paradise Lost, " a theodicy is an attempt "to justify the ways of God to men."

因此，用弥尔顿在《失乐园》开头的话说，斯奥迪斯就是试图“证明上帝待人之法“

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with thy humble ode," he's also saying that the wise men should be prevented from making it to the manger at all, that somehow the wise men need to be headed off at the pass and precluded from presenting any gifts to the Infant God that may compete with the so-called humble ode of John Milton.

要尽先把你们卑微的歌辞献上“,他同时也在说应该阻止那些术士们,不让他们到达马槽那里，不管用什么方式，都要在途中阻拦住那些术士们,不让他们把与弥尔顿所谓的谦逊的颂歌,相竞争的礼物,放在圣婴的脚下。

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